x86: move x86-specific documentation into Documentation/x86

The current organization of the x86 documentation makes it appear as
if the "i386" documentation doesn't apply to x86-64, which is does.
Thus, move that documentation into Documentation/x86, and move the
x86-64-specific stuff into Documentation/x86/x86_64 with the eventual
goal to move stuff that isn't actually 64-bit specific back into
Documentation/x86.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

8 files changed, 0 insertions, 660 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX b/Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX
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-00-INDEX
-	- This file
-boot-options.txt
-	- AMD64-specific boot options.
-cpu-hotplug-spec
-	- Firmware support for CPU hotplug under Linux/x86-64
-fake-numa-for-cpusets
-	- Using numa=fake and CPUSets for Resource Management
-kernel-stacks
-	- Context-specific per-processor interrupt stacks.
-machinecheck
-	- Configurable sysfs parameters for the x86-64 machine check code.
-mm.txt
-	- Memory layout of x86-64 (4 level page tables, 46 bits physical).
-uefi.txt
-	- Booting Linux via Unified Extensible Firmware Interface.
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt
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-AMD64 specific boot options
-
-There are many others (usually documented in driver documentation), but
-only the AMD64 specific ones are listed here.
-
-Machine check
-
-   mce=off disable machine check
-   mce=bootlog Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting.
-               Disabled by default on AMD because some BIOS leave bogus ones.
-               If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to enable though
-               to make sure you log even machine check events that result
-               in a reboot. On Intel systems it is enabled by default.
-   mce=nobootlog
-		Disable boot machine check logging.
-   mce=tolerancelevel (number)
-		0: always panic on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
-		1: panic or SIGBUS on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
-		2: SIGBUS or log uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
-		3: never panic or SIGBUS, log all errors (for testing only)
-		Default is 1
-		Can be also set using sysfs which is preferable.
-
-   nomce (for compatibility with i386): same as mce=off
-
-   Everything else is in sysfs now.
-
-APICs
-
-   apic		 Use IO-APIC. Default
-
-   noapic	 Don't use the IO-APIC.
-
-   disableapic	 Don't use the local APIC
-
-   nolapic	 Don't use the local APIC (alias for i386 compatibility)
-
-   pirq=...	 See Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt
-
-   noapictimer	 Don't set up the APIC timer
-
-   no_timer_check Don't check the IO-APIC timer. This can work around
-		 problems with incorrect timer initialization on some boards.
-
-   apicmaintimer Run time keeping from the local APIC timer instead
-                 of using the PIT/HPET interrupt for this. This is useful
-                 when the PIT/HPET interrupts are unreliable.
-
-   noapicmaintimer  Don't do time keeping using the APIC timer.
-		 Useful when this option was auto selected, but doesn't work.
-
-   apicpmtimer
-		 Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies
-		 apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally
-		 broken.
-
-   disable_8254_timer / enable_8254_timer
-		 Enable interrupt 0 timer routing over the 8254 in addition to over
-	         the IO-APIC. The kernel tries to set a sensible default.
-
-Early Console
-
-   syntax: earlyprintk=vga
-           earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]]
-
-   The early console is useful when the kernel crashes before the
-   normal console is initialized. It is not enabled by
-   default because it has some cosmetic problems.
-   Append ,keep to not disable it when the real console takes over.
-   Only vga or serial at a time, not both.
-   Currently only ttyS0 and ttyS1 are supported.
-   Interaction with the standard serial driver is not very good.
-   The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real console.
-
-Timing
-
-  notsc
-  Don't use the CPU time stamp counter to read the wall time.
-  This can be used to work around timing problems on multiprocessor systems
-  with not properly synchronized CPUs.
-
-  report_lost_ticks
-  Report when timer interrupts are lost because some code turned off
-  interrupts for too long.
-
-  nmi_watchdog=NUMBER[,panic]
-  NUMBER can be:
-  0 don't use an NMI watchdog
-  1 use the IO-APIC timer for the NMI watchdog
-  2 use the local APIC for the NMI watchdog using a performance counter. Note
-  This will use one performance counter and the local APIC's performance
-  vector.
-  When panic is specified panic when an NMI watchdog timeout occurs.
-  This is useful when you use a panic=... timeout and need the box
-  quickly up again.
-
-  nohpet
-  Don't use the HPET timer.
-
-Idle loop
-
-  idle=poll
-  Don't do power saving in the idle loop using HLT, but poll for rescheduling
-  event. This will make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful
-  to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor benchmarks. It also
-  makes some profiling using performance counters more accurate.
-  Please note that on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel EM64T
-  CPUs) this option has no performance advantage over the normal idle loop.
-  It may also interact badly with hyperthreading.
-
-Rebooting
-
-   reboot=b[ios] | t[riple] | k[bd] | a[cpi] | e[fi] [, [w]arm | [c]old]
-   bios	  Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset
-   warm   Don't set the cold reboot flag
-   cold   Set the cold reboot flag
-   triple Force a triple fault (init)
-   kbd    Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default)
-   acpi   Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not configured or the
-          ACPI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset using
-          the keyboard controller.
-   efi    Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not configured or the
-          EFI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset using
-          the keyboard controller.
-
-   Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big memory
-   systems because the BIOS will not go through the memory check.
-   Disadvantage is that not all hardware will be completely reinitialized
-   on reboot so there may be boot problems on some systems.
-
-   reboot=force
-
-   Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot more reliable
-   in some cases.
-
-Non Executable Mappings
-
-  noexec=on|off
-
-  on      Enable(default)
-  off     Disable
-
-SMP
-
-  additional_cpus=NUM Allow NUM more CPUs for hotplug
-		 (defaults are specified by the BIOS, see Documentation/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec)
-
-NUMA
-
-  numa=off	Only set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory.
-
-  numa=noacpi   Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup
-
-  numa=fake=CMDLINE
-		If a number, fakes CMDLINE nodes and ignores NUMA setup of the
-		actual machine.  Otherwise, system memory is configured
-		depending on the sizes and coefficients listed.  For example:
-			numa=fake=2*512,1024,4*256,*128
-		gives two 512M nodes, a 1024M node, four 256M nodes, and the
-		rest split into 128M chunks.  If the last character of CMDLINE
-		is a *, the remaining memory is divided up equally among its
-		coefficient:
-			numa=fake=2*512,2*
-		gives two 512M nodes and the rest split into two nodes.
-		Otherwise, the remaining system RAM is allocated to an
-		additional node.
-
-  numa=hotadd=percent
-		Only allow hotadd memory to preallocate page structures upto
-		percent of already available memory.
-		numa=hotadd=0 will disable hotadd memory.
-
-ACPI
-
-  acpi=off	Don't enable ACPI
-  acpi=ht	Use ACPI boot table parsing, but don't enable ACPI
-		interpreter
-  acpi=force	Force ACPI on (currently not needed)
-
-  acpi=strict   Disable out of spec ACPI workarounds.
-
-  acpi_sci={edge,level,high,low}  Set up ACPI SCI interrupt.
-
-  acpi=noirq	Don't route interrupts
-
-PCI
-
-  pci=off	Don't use PCI
-  pci=conf1	Use conf1 access.
-  pci=conf2	Use conf2 access.
-  pci=rom	Assign ROMs.
-  pci=assign-busses    Assign busses
-  pci=irqmask=MASK	       Set PCI interrupt mask to MASK
-  pci=lastbus=NUMBER	       Scan upto NUMBER busses, no matter what the mptable says.
-  pci=noacpi		Don't use ACPI to set up PCI interrupt routing.
-
-IOMMU (input/output memory management unit)
-
- Currently four x86-64 PCI-DMA mapping implementations exist:
-
-   1. <arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-nommu.c>: use no hardware/software IOMMU at all
-      (e.g. because you have < 3 GB memory).
-      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU"
-
-   2. <arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c>: AMD GART based hardware IOMMU.
-      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU"
-
-   3. <arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c> : Software IOMMU implementation. Used
-      e.g. if there is no hardware IOMMU in the system and it is need because
-      you have >3GB memory or told the kernel to us it (iommu=soft))
-      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering
-      for IO (SWIOTLB)"
-
-   4. <arch/x86_64/pci-calgary.c> : IBM Calgary hardware IOMMU. Used in IBM
-      pSeries and xSeries servers. This hardware IOMMU supports DMA address
-      mapping with memory protection, etc.
-      Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Using Calgary IOMMU"
-
- iommu=[<size>][,noagp][,off][,force][,noforce][,leak[=<nr_of_leak_pages>]
-	[,memaper[=<order>]][,merge][,forcesac][,fullflush][,nomerge]
-	[,noaperture][,calgary]
-
-  General iommu options:
-    off                Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU.
-    noforce            Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not needed.
-                       (default).
-    force              Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when it is
-                       not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB memory).
-    soft               Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for
-                       Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage
-                       of an available hardware IOMMU.
-
-  iommu options only relevant to the AMD GART hardware IOMMU:
-    <size>             Set the size of the remapping area in bytes.
-    allowed            Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets.
-    fullflush          Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default).
-    nofullflush        Don't use IOMMU fullflush.
-    leak               Turn on simple iommu leak tracing (only when
-                       CONFIG_IOMMU_LEAK is on). Default number of leak pages
-                       is 20.
-    memaper[=<order>]  Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size 32MB<<order.
-                       (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB)
-    merge              Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force"
-                       (experimental).
-    nomerge            Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging.
-    noaperture         Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP.
-    forcesac           Force single-address cycle (SAC) mode for masks <40bits
-                       (experimental).
-    noagp              Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture.
-    allowdac           Allow double-address cycle (DAC) mode, i.e. DMA >4GB.
-                       DAC is used with 32-bit PCI to push a 64-bit address in
-                       two cycles. When off all DMA over >4GB is forced through
-                       an IOMMU or software bounce buffering.
-    nodac              Forbid DAC mode, i.e. DMA >4GB.
-    panic              Always panic when IOMMU overflows.
-    calgary            Use the Calgary IOMMU if it is available
-
-  iommu options only relevant to the software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) IOMMU
-  implementation:
-    swiotlb=<pages>[,force]
-    <pages>            Prereserve that many 128K pages for the software IO
-                       bounce buffering.
-    force              Force all IO through the software TLB.
-
-  Settings for the IBM Calgary hardware IOMMU currently found in IBM
-  pSeries and xSeries machines:
-
-    calgary=[64k,128k,256k,512k,1M,2M,4M,8M]
-    calgary=[translate_empty_slots]
-    calgary=[disable=<PCI bus number>]
-    panic              Always panic when IOMMU overflows
-
-    64k,...,8M - Set the size of each PCI slot's translation table
-    when using the Calgary IOMMU. This is the size of the translation
-    table itself in main memory. The smallest table, 64k, covers an IO
-    space of 32MB; the largest, 8MB table, can cover an IO space of
-    4GB. Normally the kernel will make the right choice by itself.
-
-    translate_empty_slots - Enable translation even on slots that have
-    no devices attached to them, in case a device will be hotplugged
-    in the future.
-
-    disable=<PCI bus number> - Disable translation on a given PHB. For
-    example, the built-in graphics adapter resides on the first bridge
-    (PCI bus number 0); if translation (isolation) is enabled on this
-    bridge, X servers that access the hardware directly from user
-    space might stop working. Use this option if you have devices that
-    are accessed from userspace directly on some PCI host bridge.
-
-Debugging
-
-  oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the process,
-		but there is a small probability of deadlocking the machine.
-		This will also cause panics on machine check exceptions.
-		Useful together with panic=30 to trigger a reboot.
-
-  kstack=N	Print N words from the kernel stack in oops dumps.
-
-  pagefaulttrace  Dump all page faults. Only useful for extreme debugging
-		and will create a lot of output.
-
-  call_trace=[old|both|newfallback|new]
-		old: use old inexact backtracer
-		new: use new exact dwarf2 unwinder
- 		both: print entries from both
-		newfallback: use new unwinder but fall back to old if it gets
-			stuck (default)
-
-Miscellaneous
-
-	nogbpages
-		Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
-	gbpages
-		Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec b/Documentation/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec
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-Firmware support for CPU hotplug under Linux/x86-64
----------------------------------------------------
-
-Linux/x86-64 supports CPU hotplug now. For various reasons Linux wants to
-know in advance of boot time the maximum number of CPUs that could be plugged
-into the system. ACPI 3.0 currently has no official way to supply
-this information from the firmware to the operating system.
-
-In ACPI each CPU needs an LAPIC object in the MADT table (5.2.11.5 in the
-ACPI 3.0 specification).  ACPI already has the concept of disabled LAPIC
-objects by setting the Enabled bit in the LAPIC object to zero.
-
-For CPU hotplug Linux/x86-64 expects now that any possible future hotpluggable
-CPU is already available in the MADT. If the CPU is not available yet
-it should have its LAPIC Enabled bit set to 0. Linux will use the number
-of disabled LAPICs to compute the maximum number of future CPUs.
-
-In the worst case the user can overwrite this choice using a command line
-option (additional_cpus=...), but it is recommended to supply the correct
-number (or a reasonable approximation of it, with erring towards more not less)
-in the MADT to avoid manual configuration.
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets b/Documentation/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets
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-Using numa=fake and CPUSets for Resource Management
-Written by David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>
-
-This document describes how the numa=fake x86_64 command-line option can be used
-in conjunction with cpusets for coarse memory management.  Using this feature,
-you can create fake NUMA nodes that represent contiguous chunks of memory and
-assign them to cpusets and their attached tasks.  This is a way of limiting the
-amount of system memory that are available to a certain class of tasks.
-
-For more information on the features of cpusets, see Documentation/cpusets.txt.
-There are a number of different configurations you can use for your needs.  For
-more information on the numa=fake command line option and its various ways of
-configuring fake nodes, see Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt.
-
-For the purposes of this introduction, we'll assume a very primitive NUMA
-emulation setup of "numa=fake=4*512,".  This will split our system memory into
-four equal chunks of 512M each that we can now use to assign to cpusets.  As
-you become more familiar with using this combination for resource control,
-you'll determine a better setup to minimize the number of nodes you have to deal
-with.
-
-A machine may be split as follows with "numa=fake=4*512," as reported by dmesg:
-
-	Faking node 0 at 0000000000000000-0000000020000000 (512MB)
-	Faking node 1 at 0000000020000000-0000000040000000 (512MB)
-	Faking node 2 at 0000000040000000-0000000060000000 (512MB)
-	Faking node 3 at 0000000060000000-0000000080000000 (512MB)
-	...
-	On node 0 totalpages: 130975
-	On node 1 totalpages: 131072
-	On node 2 totalpages: 131072
-	On node 3 totalpages: 131072
-
-Now following the instructions for mounting the cpusets filesystem from
-Documentation/cpusets.txt, you can assign fake nodes (i.e. contiguous memory
-address spaces) to individual cpusets:
-
-	[root@xroads /]# mkdir exampleset
-	[root@xroads /]# mount -t cpuset none exampleset
-	[root@xroads /]# mkdir exampleset/ddset
-	[root@xroads /]# cd exampleset/ddset
-	[root@xroads /exampleset/ddset]# echo 0-1 > cpus
-	[root@xroads /exampleset/ddset]# echo 0-1 > mems
-
-Now this cpuset, 'ddset', will only allowed access to fake nodes 0 and 1 for
-memory allocations (1G).
-
-You can now assign tasks to these cpusets to limit the memory resources
-available to them according to the fake nodes assigned as mems:
-
-	[root@xroads /exampleset/ddset]# echo $$ > tasks
-	[root@xroads /exampleset/ddset]# dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp bs=1024 count=1G
-	[1] 13425
-
-Notice the difference between the system memory usage as reported by
-/proc/meminfo between the restricted cpuset case above and the unrestricted
-case (i.e. running the same 'dd' command without assigning it to a fake NUMA
-cpuset):
-				Unrestricted	Restricted
-	MemTotal:		3091900 kB	3091900 kB
-	MemFree:		  42113 kB	1513236 kB
-
-This allows for coarse memory management for the tasks you assign to particular
-cpusets.  Since cpusets can form a hierarchy, you can create some pretty
-interesting combinations of use-cases for various classes of tasks for your
-memory management needs.
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/kernel-stacks b/Documentation/x86_64/kernel-stacks
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-Most of the text from Keith Owens, hacked by AK
-
-x86_64 page size (PAGE_SIZE) is 4K.
-
-Like all other architectures, x86_64 has a kernel stack for every
-active thread.  These thread stacks are THREAD_SIZE (2*PAGE_SIZE) big.
-These stacks contain useful data as long as a thread is alive or a
-zombie. While the thread is in user space the kernel stack is empty
-except for the thread_info structure at the bottom.
-
-In addition to the per thread stacks, there are specialized stacks
-associated with each CPU.  These stacks are only used while the kernel
-is in control on that CPU; when a CPU returns to user space the
-specialized stacks contain no useful data.  The main CPU stacks are:
-
-* Interrupt stack.  IRQSTACKSIZE
-
-  Used for external hardware interrupts.  If this is the first external
-  hardware interrupt (i.e. not a nested hardware interrupt) then the
-  kernel switches from the current task to the interrupt stack.  Like
-  the split thread and interrupt stacks on i386 (with CONFIG_4KSTACKS),
-  this gives more room for kernel interrupt processing without having
-  to increase the size of every per thread stack.
-
-  The interrupt stack is also used when processing a softirq.
-
-Switching to the kernel interrupt stack is done by software based on a
-per CPU interrupt nest counter. This is needed because x86-64 "IST"
-hardware stacks cannot nest without races.
-
-x86_64 also has a feature which is not available on i386, the ability
-to automatically switch to a new stack for designated events such as
-double fault or NMI, which makes it easier to handle these unusual
-events on x86_64.  This feature is called the Interrupt Stack Table
-(IST).  There can be up to 7 IST entries per CPU. The IST code is an
-index into the Task State Segment (TSS). The IST entries in the TSS
-point to dedicated stacks; each stack can be a different size.
-
-An IST is selected by a non-zero value in the IST field of an
-interrupt-gate descriptor.  When an interrupt occurs and the hardware
-loads such a descriptor, the hardware automatically sets the new stack
-pointer based on the IST value, then invokes the interrupt handler.  If
-software wants to allow nested IST interrupts then the handler must
-adjust the IST values on entry to and exit from the interrupt handler.
-(This is occasionally done, e.g. for debug exceptions.)
-
-Events with different IST codes (i.e. with different stacks) can be
-nested.  For example, a debug interrupt can safely be interrupted by an
-NMI.  arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S::paranoidentry adjusts the stack
-pointers on entry to and exit from all IST events, in theory allowing
-IST events with the same code to be nested.  However in most cases, the
-stack size allocated to an IST assumes no nesting for the same code.
-If that assumption is ever broken then the stacks will become corrupt.
-
-The currently assigned IST stacks are :-
-
-* STACKFAULT_STACK.  EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE).
-
-  Used for interrupt 12 - Stack Fault Exception (#SS).
-
-  This allows the CPU to recover from invalid stack segments. Rarely
-  happens.
-
-* DOUBLEFAULT_STACK.  EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE).
-
-  Used for interrupt 8 - Double Fault Exception (#DF).
-
-  Invoked when handling one exception causes another exception. Happens
-  when the kernel is very confused (e.g. kernel stack pointer corrupt).
-  Using a separate stack allows the kernel to recover from it well enough
-  in many cases to still output an oops.
-
-* NMI_STACK.  EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE).
-
-  Used for non-maskable interrupts (NMI).
-
-  NMI can be delivered at any time, including when the kernel is in the
-  middle of switching stacks.  Using IST for NMI events avoids making
-  assumptions about the previous state of the kernel stack.
-
-* DEBUG_STACK.  DEBUG_STKSZ
-
-  Used for hardware debug interrupts (interrupt 1) and for software
-  debug interrupts (INT3).
-
-  When debugging a kernel, debug interrupts (both hardware and
-  software) can occur at any time.  Using IST for these interrupts
-  avoids making assumptions about the previous state of the kernel
-  stack.
-
-* MCE_STACK.  EXCEPTION_STKSZ (PAGE_SIZE).
-
-  Used for interrupt 18 - Machine Check Exception (#MC).
-
-  MCE can be delivered at any time, including when the kernel is in the
-  middle of switching stacks.  Using IST for MCE events avoids making
-  assumptions about the previous state of the kernel stack.
-
-For more details see the Intel IA32 or AMD AMD64 architecture manuals.
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck b/Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck
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-
-Configurable sysfs parameters for the x86-64 machine check code.
-
-Machine checks report internal hardware error conditions detected
-by the CPU. Uncorrected errors typically cause a machine check
-(often with panic), corrected ones cause a machine check log entry.
-
-Machine checks are organized in banks (normally associated with
-a hardware subsystem) and subevents in a bank. The exact meaning
-of the banks and subevent is CPU specific.
-
-mcelog knows how to decode them.
-
-When you see the "Machine check errors logged" message in the system
-log then mcelog should run to collect and decode machine check entries
-from /dev/mcelog. Normally mcelog should be run regularly from a cronjob.
-
-Each CPU has a directory in /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckN
-(N = CPU number)
-
-The directory contains some configurable entries:
-
-Entries:
-
-bankNctl
-(N bank number)
-	64bit Hex bitmask enabling/disabling specific subevents for bank N
-	When a bit in the bitmask is zero then the respective
-	subevent will not be reported.
-	By default all events are enabled.
-	Note that BIOS maintain another mask to disable specific events
-	per bank.  This is not visible here
-
-The following entries appear for each CPU, but they are truly shared
-between all CPUs.
-
-check_interval
-	How often to poll for corrected machine check errors, in seconds
-	(Note output is hexademical). Default 5 minutes.  When the poller
-	finds MCEs it triggers an exponential speedup (poll more often) on
-	the polling interval.  When the poller stops finding MCEs, it
-	triggers an exponential backoff (poll less often) on the polling
-	interval. The check_interval variable is both the initial and
-	maximum polling interval.
-
-tolerant
-	Tolerance level. When a machine check exception occurs for a non
-	corrected machine check the kernel can take different actions.
-	Since machine check exceptions can happen any time it is sometimes
-	risky for the kernel to kill a process because it defies
-	normal kernel locking rules. The tolerance level configures
-	how hard the kernel tries to recover even at some risk of
-	deadlock.  Higher tolerant values trade potentially better uptime
-	with the risk of a crash or even corruption (for tolerant >= 3).
-
-	0: always panic on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
-	1: panic or SIGBUS on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
-	2: SIGBUS or log uncorrected errors, log corrected errors
-	3: never panic or SIGBUS, log all errors (for testing only)
-
-	Default: 1
-
-	Note this only makes a difference if the CPU allows recovery
-	from a machine check exception. Current x86 CPUs generally do not.
-
-trigger
-	Program to run when a machine check event is detected.
-	This is an alternative to running mcelog regularly from cron
-	and allows to detect events faster.
-
-TBD document entries for AMD threshold interrupt configuration
-
-For more details about the x86 machine check architecture
-see the Intel and AMD architecture manuals from their developer websites.
-
-For more details about the architecture see
-see http://one.firstfloor.org/~andi/mce.pdf
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt
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-
-<previous description obsolete, deleted>
-
-Virtual memory map with 4 level page tables:
-
-0000000000000000 - 00007fffffffffff (=47 bits) user space, different per mm
-hole caused by [48:63] sign extension
-ffff800000000000 - ffff80ffffffffff (=40 bits) guard hole
-ffff810000000000 - ffffc0ffffffffff (=46 bits) direct mapping of all phys. memory
-ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole
-ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space
-ffffe20000000000 - ffffe2ffffffffff (=40 bits) virtual memory map (1TB)
-... unused hole ...
-ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff82800000 (=40 MB)   kernel text mapping, from phys 0
-... unused hole ...
-ffffffff88000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1919 MB) module mapping space
-
-The direct mapping covers all memory in the system up to the highest
-memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory
-holes).
-
-vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4 pages of
-the processes using the page fault handler, with init_level4_pgt as
-reference.
-
-Current X86-64 implementations only support 40 bits of address space,
-but we support up to 46 bits. This expands into MBZ space in the page tables.
-
--Andi Kleen, Jul 2004
diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/uefi.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/uefi.txt
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-General note on [U]EFI x86_64 support
--------------------------------------
-
-The nomenclature EFI and UEFI are used interchangeably in this document.
-
-Although the tools below are _not_ needed for building the kernel,
-the needed bootloader support and associated tools for x86_64 platforms
-with EFI firmware and specifications are listed below.
-
-1. UEFI specification:  http://www.uefi.org
-
-2. Booting Linux kernel on UEFI x86_64 platform requires bootloader
-   support. Elilo with x86_64 support can be used.
-
-3. x86_64 platform with EFI/UEFI firmware.
-
-Mechanics:
----------
-- Build the kernel with the following configuration.
-	CONFIG_FB_EFI=y
-	CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
-  If EFI runtime services are expected, the following configuration should
-  be selected.
-	CONFIG_EFI=y
-	CONFIG_EFI_VARS=y or m		# optional
-- Create a VFAT partition on the disk
-- Copy the following to the VFAT partition:
-	elilo bootloader with x86_64 support, elilo configuration file,
-	kernel image built in first step and corresponding
-	initrd. Instructions on building elilo	and its dependencies
-	can be found in the elilo sourceforge project.
-- Boot to EFI shell and invoke elilo choosing the kernel image built
-  in first step.
-- If some or all EFI runtime services don't work, you can try following
-  kernel command line parameters to turn off some or all EFI runtime
-  services.
-	noefi		turn off all EFI runtime services
-	reboot_type=k	turn off EFI reboot runtime service